Speedy Locomotives!

Read more about great locomotives that have appeared in the pages of Trains over the years. You will also find out more about the beloved SD40-2 and read five of Trains famous speed surveys of the 1950s and 1960s (before the term “velocity” was even coined) in this TRAINS Express PDF package. Here’s the line-up of nine stories from the Trains magazine archive:


- “The Story of Speed” By Donald M. Steffee, Pages 22-30, May 1954

- “It’s True: Steam Pulled Passengers Faster 30 Years Ago” By Donald M. Steffee, Cover, Pages 32-46, May 1967

- “Overseas They’ve Overtaken Us (and Long Since)” By Donald M. Steffee, Pages 38-44, July 1969

- “The Year Amtrak Abandoned Racetracks” By Donald M. Steffee, Pages 38-47, June 1972

- “Faster Freights, Pokier Passengers” By Donald M. Steffee, Pages 40-47, July 1973

- “A Kid Wearing Gym Shoes” By Mike Iczkowski, Pages 54-55, June 1975

- “Lament for a Lost Locomotive” By Bernard J. Doody, Pages 20-21, August 1980

- “Like a Striped Elephant with Six Legs” By Robert A. Le Massena, Page 39, February 1983

- “American Standard – the SD40 and SD40-2” By Greg McDonnell, Pages 54-65, September 1997


(68 pages, 13.2 MB)